This textbook contains an account of self/non self discrimination in other invertebrate and vertebrate organisms. Klein demonstrates how the intricate molecular and cellular mechanisms of defence are fashioned by evolution as answers to a variety of biological problems of survival. He goes on to describe our understanding of lymphoid organs, T and B cells, immunoglobulins, lymphokines, histocompatibility, tolerance and the concepts and experiments that define modern immunology. Up-to-date and aiming to do justice to the new molecular understanding of the subject this book redefines the contours of a discipline that increasingly occupies centre stage in modern life science. It emphasizes current trends in immunological research and describes the organization of the immune system, the
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